Flight performance characteristics of a biologically-inspired morphing aircraft

43rd AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit - Meeting Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 6657-6671

  Abdulrahim, Mujahid ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b AIAA   (United States)

^c 231 MAE A Building ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICALLY-INSPIRED MORPHING; FLIGHT PERFORMANCE; STATIC AERODYNAMICS;

AIRCRAFT; DATA REDUCTION;

FLIGHT DYNAMICS;

EID: 30744471669     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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